Improvement in egg-carriers



-A. u. BRYANT.

Egg-Carriers.

M 153 82-3 Pa:emd1an.19,1'a75.

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UNITED STATES Page 3 OFFICE ABNER H. BRYANT, or GHIOAGOJILLINOIS.

(IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 158,828, dated January19,1875; application filed June 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER H. BRYANT, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inEgg-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a detail view of myeggcarrier. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

This invention has relation to the construction of egg-carriers byintersecting strips of pasteboard or similar substance to form the sidewalls of the pockets.

Heretofore rectangular egg-pockets have been made with strips havingslits on one side only, but these strips are objectionable in use, forthe reason that in handling they fall apart too easily.

My improvement consists in the construct'on and novel arrangement of theinterlacing slits or notches in such a manner that they extend inwardalternately from each edge of both the longitudinal and the transversestrips, whereby the strips are adapted to beinierwoven togetherflandlocked in the weaving, thus preventing all liability of damage to theeggs by the falling apart of said strips.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates one strip, whichwill be termed for convenience of description the longitudinal strip, Bindicating the other or transverse strip. Each of these strips isprovided with the interlacing slits a b, respectively, extendingalternately from the upper and lower edges of the strip inward, asindicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in such a manner that the stripsmay be interwoven by means of the slits.

In this operation, the flexible nature of the material of which thestrips are formed ena bles them to be bent sufficiently to pass thecorresponding alternate blanks c of one strip into the alternate slitsof each edge of the crossing-strips. When this is done the strip A willbe prevented from moving in either direction with reference to thestrips B by the slits of the latter embracing and locking its upper aswell as its lower edge in position. In the same manner each strip B islocked on both edges by the slits of the crossing-strips A.

I am well aware that a strip with alternating slots on opposite sidesthereof is not new,

and I therefore do not claim such strip broadly; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the longitudinal strip A and transverse strip B,constructed of flexible material, each provided with alternate reversedslots, as described, for interweaving said strips together edgewiseandforming rectangular bottomless pockets, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses. Y

ABNER H. BRYANT.

